South African Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius will be sentenced this week for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, ending years of legal twists and turns.<br />It’ll be the second time Pistorius has been sentenced for the killing following an appeal by prosecutors.<br />The three-year legal saga that began with the fatal gunshots in the pre-dawn hours of Valentine’s Day 2013 now appears to be near its end.<br />The track star, whose lower legs were amputated when he was a baby, initially received a five-year sentence for culpable homicide, South Africa’s equivalent of manslaughter.<br />The conviction was later upgraded to murder after an appeal heard by the Supreme Court.
